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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918.
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THE CHATTANOOGA' NEWS
OGLETHORPE FREEST
FROM SOCIAL VICE
Montgomery and Jacksonville
. ' Quarantined for Soldiers.
Chattanooga Open.
At several of the southern military
camps quarantine orders prohibit sol
diers from visiting the cities without
special order from the commanding: of
ficer. These orders are the result of the
Increase of venereal diseases among
the troops. The quarantine has been
put on at Montgomery, Ala., and
Jacksonville, PI a., effecting Camps
Sheridan , and Johnston. At both of
these places all officers and enlisted
men In the camps have been barred
from visiting the city. In addition to
these two cities this order, it Is un
derstood, has been given out at sev
eral other cantonments.
In inquiring as to the conditions ex
isting in Chattanooga and the camps
located near here, the United States
public health service representatives
were inclined to think Saturday that
the conditions were exceptionally good
here. However, those in charge state
that if the people fail to give the nec
essary co-operation to keep Chatta
nooga clean a ban will be placed on
the city. One good point regarding the
control of the question in Chattanooga
is the establishment of the free clin
ics for the treatment of such diseases.
One of these has been opened in the
courthouse recently while another one
has been in operation for the past
several months at the city hall. Ac
cording to Dr. C. P. Knight, the offi
cer in charge, this adds much to the
control of the social evil and has been
the cause of marked Improvement in
this city.
In the clinics he has employed spe
cial trained nurses and doctors for
the treatment of the hundreds of cases
which are listed at the clinic every
week.
Dr. Knight has made every effort to
bring the condition existing in Chat
tanooga before the public and obtain
the co-operation of the business men.
He has therefore set a high standard
for the sanitary and social conditions
of this city. T
It is understood that an Inspector
sent from the department at Washing
ton made a round of the cantonments
investigating the venereal situation. In
making his reports to the department
at Washington Chattanooga stood near
the top.
ONE "IF" CLAUSE IN "WORK OR FIGHT"
RULING GIVE BIG TASK FOR BOARDS
Regulations Embracing " Unproductive " Labor Made Elastic by
Specification, "Where Change From Non-productive Employ
ment Would Work Disproportionate Hardship on De
pendents" Problems Now Up To Draft Boards
to Determine.
CRIMINAL COURT TAKES
UP GRIND MONDAY
Criminal court will enter into a two
weeks' grind Monday morning after a
long rest. Judge McReynolrs, who has
just returned from a week's visit to
his mother in Sequatchie valley, said
he wanted to clear his docket between
now and September, at which time
several court officials will retire from
office. He requests all lawyers having
cases In his court be ready for trial.
All workers, at non-productive
trades must shift their occupation to
productive trades on or before July 1
on pain of being called before the lo
cal registration chairmen and reas
signed to class A-l. For days bell
boys, billiard room men, clerks in
stores and all the other classes set
out below have been waiting with
some trepidation the outcome of the
famous "work op fight" legislation.
This order has at last beeif received
by each, of the chairmen of the local
boards. The new order makes every
chairman Judge of the non-productiveness
of every registrant's occupa
tion. No registrant need give himself any
personal concern as to whether his
occupation Is non-productive or not.
If his occupation comes under the
ban the hairman of his local board
will take initiative in the matter and
he will receive a printed notice to ap
pear before the board and show rea
son why he should be allowed to con
tinue in such non-productive employ
ment and why he should not be placed
in class 1.
Special attention should be paid to
the excuses which will be accepted by
the chairmen of the various boards
for being allowed to remain in a non
productive occupation.
No Unreasonable Hardship.
The Intention of this passage is to
prevent unreasonable hardship on
men of families in a harsh reclassi
fication In these instances the chair
men of the boards are the Judges of
what Is or Is not unreasonable hard
ship. In an Interview Saturday morn
ing. Dr. W. M. Bogart, of county
board No. 1, stated that the new role
of acting as a judge would be a most
invidious one to the chairmen. Un
doubtedly many pathetic and difficult
cases will be presented for their con
sideration.
Problem to Registrars.
In re"ply to how the registrars would
spot men In non-productive employ
ments, Dr. Bogart stated that it was
the duty of every citizen to hand In
to the chairman of his hoard the
names of non-productives who had
not voluntarily shifted their . work.
However, the very questionnaires in
the hands of the chairmen will prob
ably be sufficient notice to the chair
men of such workers.
The text of the order for this re
classification is as follows:
On July 1 If It is made to appear
to the registration boards that a man
is engaged In the following occupa
tions he may be reclassified and
placed in class 1:
(a) Persons engaged In servine
food and drink or either in public
places, Including hotels and social
clubs.
(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, and door men, foot
men, carriage openers and other at
tendants - in clubs, hotels, stores,
apartment houses, office buildings and
bath houses.
(c) Persons, Including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu
pied v in games, sports and amuse
ments, except actual performers in
legitimate concerts, operas and theat
rical performances.
(d) Persons employed In domestic
service.
(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mer
cantile establishments.
Ths laus That Counts.
These regulations may be extended
from time to time to include other
occupations, but, or the resent, no
occupation not included in the list
given above may be held by the dis
trict board to be a non-productive oc
cupation.
The following excuses may be giv
en and accepted by the local board
for temporary idleness or for being
engaged in a non-productive occupa
tion: -
(a) Sickness; (b), reasonable vaca
tions; (c), temporary absence from
productive employment (not to ex
ceed one week)ffl (e), when a change
from a non-productive to a productive
employment would work a dispropor
tionate hardship on the workers' de
pendents. The. following list of white men from
city board No. 1 will entrain for Camp
Gordon, Ga., within a five-day period
beginning June 24:
Thos. B. Coombs. Marcus Rubin.
J. B. Rose.
H. S. Potter.
Will Whittle.
M. B, Mitchell.
J. H. Kansinger.
J. G. Corneilson.
E. H. Ladd.
F. R. Haynes.
Thos. W. Cupp.
Ernest Darby.
F. D. Martin.
J. B. Jarnagin.
Edward Bundschu. B. R. GIsh.
E. H. Farr.
C. E. Woode.
B. R. Hagood.
R. D. Holt.
J. C. Mostello.
V. H. Rhoner.
W. R. Smith.
VanG. Sloan.
H. H. Mason.
W. B. l.ooney.
J. W. Tallent.
J. P. Hoge.
G. D. Jakes.
L. J. Eddings.
O. C. Schweiger.
H. G. Austin.
T. E. Baskin.
L. K Gill.
C. T. Morrow.
Harry Dykes.
Jaipes Brewer.
J. D. R. Foreman.
J. A. Sweatt.
M. D. Bean.
Bart Choat.
A. D. Suddarth.
XV. J. Hayes.
J.,M. Strahle.
f. D. Griffin.
N. L. Swindell.
J. B. Heard.
M. R. Gibson.
J. B Shelton.
Callie Pritchard.
R. H. Childress.
G. V. Herron.
C. O. Shelton.
Will Rodgers.
W. M. Marshall.
H. M. Layfleld.
A. S. Green.
Lee Btllingsley.
Carry D. Blount
W. B. Milan.
R. O. Axllne.
W. D. Gardenhlre.
Luke Baker.
C. B. Taber.
Frank Rider.
W. T. Dobbs.
A. W. Fleck.
J. J. Jacobson.
1 C. S. Thompson.
P. B. Reecc.
J. C. MrDermott
Ike Bcnkovits.
T. C. Morris.
Everett Burgner.
K. J. Ellington.
Samuel Ginsberg.
U O. Dasher.
G. E. Richter. Jr.
H. C. Metr.ger.
John Callahan.
E. D. Glaze.
D. I,. Rowe.
J. D. Henry.
H. I. Stoner.
O. R. Pannll.
T. E. Fine.
R. M. Mashbtirn.
R. Jumper.
Byron Hartman.
R. N. Sloan.
A. C. Gray.
P. J. Wallace.
G. C. Murphy.
E. J. Dinkins.
J. A. Suddarth.
J. W. Byrnes.
A H. Case.
C. C. Titsworth.
T. B. Morrison.
J. F. Rhea.
I. R. Johnson.
R. F. Wilson.
J. W. Ivey.
H. F. Rice.
O. D. Smith.
J. C. Johnson.
J. O. Jones.
Carter Gillespie.
C. O. Thompson.
A. I Cottrell. ...
Charles Hut sell.
I M. Gallant.
Sibley Allen.
A. U Williams.
J. A. Tabefc
Tony Paradiso.
I E. Wolfe.
W. E. dinger.
R. B. Burkhardt.
C F. Murphy.
John D. Dean.
F, W. Ruffln.
Ij. T. Schrlver.
J. H. Morris.
Rube O'Neal.
R. M. Price.
T. C. Crowder.
E. R. Conner.
J. A. Wooten.
f. E. Barker.
H. C. Richards.
J. W. Jolly.
J. A. Gillespie.
W. N. Rather.
Mike Theodore.
Bob Hill.
W. A. Smith.
C. F. LaTuille.
F. Ij. Bradley.
Earl Moore.
P. L. Love.
H. L. Robinson.
C. A. Gratzer.
Fred Brown,
H. B. Hoge.
C. F. Jackson. ,
J. E. Burton.
J. S. Rowe.
Jacob Astor
J. H. Weinsburgh
A. L. Shaw.
Walter Newton.
T. M. Cook.
James Alford.
D. M. Conley.
Z. H. Taylor.
E. A. Farrar.
A. W. Scruggs.
E. B. Lockhart.
C. V. Lehman.
W. D. Cunningham.
Clarence Hemstreet.
William Robinson.
Men In this list who volunteered to
go to Cookevilie will be selected and
taken out of this list if a call is re
ceived before June 24.
The following list of negroes from
city board No. 1 will entrain for
Camp Dodge, Dps Moines, la., during
a five-day period beginning June 19:
ALMOST TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN 5:30-6:18
Rays Will Make Myriad Crescents On the Earth Mere Man No
Longer Quakes With Fear at This Celestial Phenomenon, but
Realizes His Relative Insignificance in a Universe
of Billions of Worlds.
Fiank Shields.
Will Turner.
George Baker.
Hiram Griffin.
C. W. Richardson.
William Chubs.
Jakes Turner.
Walter Baker.
Wm. Goodman.
S. P. Betts.
Jacob Betts.
Pink Smith.
W. F. Gilliam.
O. A. Ervin.
W. A. Rose.
William Read.
Roy Espy.
Harrison Nichols.
Garner Thurman.
Sebron-Gorley.
S. Crawford.
E. W. Hamilton.
BenJ. Putman.
Fred Cliff.
Andrew Dozier.
Jesse Freeman.
John Turner.
Erwin Clark.
Jeff Osborne.
J. F. Bankhead.
Jesse Holt.
F. Montgomery.
T. Thomas.
J. Nathaniel.
Tobe Bennett.
Joe Townsend.
Robt. Manning.
Avery Robinson.
. Townsend.
C. S. Hackney.
Wm. Simmons.
Homer Young.
Ernest Hill.
Ernest Morrell.
Herbert Bonner.
Emmett Steele.
John Parks.
Jas. Coleman.
S. Johnson.
Evans Drake.
B. Cartwright.
Lewis Houston.
W. Dunsmore.
W. L. Thomas.
Albert Hicks.
S. A. Dixon.
Shelby Jordan.
Rufus Freeman.
A. Williams.
Vaughn Evans.
Ever since sunrise this -morning a
total eclipse of the sun has been trav
eling eastward from the Boridino Is
lands, south of Japan toward the Ba
hamas, where it will end at sunset.
The line of this dusky shadow
sweeps In an immense diagonal line
across the United States, entering
American territory at Aberdeen, Wash.,
at 1:65 p.m. and ending at the tip of
Florida at 8:41 p.m.
The line oi totality will be fifty
miles wide, while that of Beml-totallty
will extend for 150 miles. Scientists
from the naval observatory in Wash
ington have completed arrangements
to observe the eclipse and have sent
a delegation of five to the observatory
at Baker, Ore., where there will be a
total eclipse for 117 seconds. Other
stations have been established along
the line to be followed by the eclipse,
and the scientists have hopes that the
phenomena will assist in solving prob
lems which have been under discus
sion. An odd feature is that the eclipse
will last two minutes in Washington
and only forty-five seconds in Florida.
The eclipse is only partial in Ten
nessee. In Chattanooga it will begin
at 5:34 p.m., local time, reach its max
imum at 6:35 p.m. and end at 7:31 p.m.
At the maximum nine-tenths of the
sun will be covered. The shadow of
the moon will appear on the west limb
of the sun and may be seen through a
smoked glass.
Sun's Rays a Crescent.
Observers in this locality will see a
dimming of the sunlight, and, if they
are under a leafy tree, they will no
tice that the sunshine falling on the
ground through the leaves draws in
numerable crescents, Instead of the or
dinary round splotch. These are im
ages of the sun produced by the small
openings of the leaves that give a pin
hole camera effect.
The real pin-hole camera may be
tried by taking a sheet of paper, mak
ing a pin hole in it and allowing a sin
gle ray of light to fall through the
hole onto another paper. The light
will form a bright crescent.
In the field of complete eclipse a
most wonderfud solar spectacle will be
visible. Black night will gradually
usurp the day; the stars come out.
Around the rim of the blotted sun play
fiery streamers, as though It struggled
against the black incubus of the moon.
So vast Is this rim of boiling bright
ness that the licking conflagration will
fill with fire the whole path of the
Logan Downs.
P. Scott.
O. M. Simmons.
Geo. Basham.
Chas. Davenport.
Sylvester Grant.
B. S. Green.
J. H. Elder.
V. Fredericks.
Conway Bayless.
Dock Tldwell.
L. Lee Graham.
Frank Hawkins.
Chas. Milner.
John White.
Isham Dykes.
moon around the earth. In those
tongues of flame the earth would
shrivel like a gnat. For the awful min
ute of totality, human beings may real
ise that they are but atoms of pro
toplasm on a bit of mould circling
through space; ephemerae, existing for
the beat of a bird's wing, amid the end
less swing of the universe.
And then the shadow drifts away,
the great source of light loses Its
mighty awe and becomes once again
the genial noontide sun of June day,
and men stretch themselves with a
long breath and resume their little im
portances. Back in the twilight ages of the
world superstitious mon tnvested each
recurring solar eclipse with terrors.
The Chinese fancied it a dragon swal
lowing the fountain of light. In Julius
Caesar. Shakespeare presages his trag
edy with the gloomy implications of an
eclipse. In Pepy's diary mention Is
made of such premonitions before the
great fire of London. The Middle Ages
trembled at every astronomical phe
nomenon. Today man is much wiser. He knows
it all signifies nothing; and yet and
yet the mightiest war of mankind Is
filling the earth with destruction;
kingdoms are falling, empires reeling.
CAPT. MULHOLLAND
LECTURES ON WAR
Past Prex of Rotary Clubs of
World Describes Military
and Civilian Europe.
W. S. PALMER HEADS
MAGMLL-PLMER CO.
In Reorganization of Firm V.
B. Prater Vice-President. .
L. J. Crouch Secretary. i
At a recent meeting rf th stock
holders and directors of the Magill
Palmer Hardware company, Walter 8.
Palmer was elected president, succeed
ing the late Charles S. Magiii, who be
came president of the concern at the
time of its erorganizatlon and the con
solidation of the retail store of ths
Palmer Hardware company, which be
came the Maglll-Palmer company. In
the reorganization of the personnel, ef
fective from June 1, Vernon B. Prater
becomes vice-president and sales man
ager, while Ij. J. Chouch was elected
to the office of secretary and treasurer.
The newly-elected president, W. S.
Palmer, has been identified with the
company for some time, although not
actively. He is at the head of the
Palmer Clothing company. Vernon B.
Prater, the newly-elected vice-president,
hns been connected with the O.
B. Andrews Box company as sales
manager. L. J. Crouch, who was
elected secretary and treasurer, has
been with the Magill company for mors
than twelve years. He started with
the concern as office boy, gradually
working himself up through various
positions, and as a result of his loyal
work and close attention to the affairs
of the company he was elected to the.
responsible office In connection with
which ha will manage the company's
affairs.
Much Interest is being sliown here
in the coming of Capt. Frank Mulhol
land to lecture at the Chautauqua on
Monday night on "Bringlg Home the
War." Capt. Mulholland, who is past
president of the Rotary Clubs of the
World, has Just returned from an In
vestigating tour of France and Eng
land, under the auspices of the Ameri
can Red Cross. He visited the front
line trenches and also made a study of
civilian conditions. He was In Paris
during its initial bombardmen. by the
famous long-range gun of the Germans.
NEGRO MERCHANTS JOIN
IN SALE THRIFT STAMPS
The meeting of the colored retail
merchants of Chnttanooga last night
for the purpose of promoting the Bales
of war savings stamps was a complete
success. Ail were enthusiastic and it is
expected that much will be accom
plished by them. In many of the towns
the colored merchants nre not asked to
share in this great drive, but the
Chattanooga merchants have extend"d
the field here upon the assurance of a
general willingness to co-operate.
Mr. Adolph Mathls, state organizer of
retail merchants for the sale of war
savings stamps, states that the detail
merchants nil over the state are lining
tip for the organized work of selling
thrift stamps, and that interest grows
dally.
Every town, hamlet and city In Ten
nessee has a representative of this or
ganization who is organizing the other
merchants of the town. Already 250
! towns nre enrolled and others are com
ing In every day.
The little town of Jackson has sent
in the best report of the sales of
stamps, in proportion to its population,
of any town in the state.
LOCAL PLUMBERS FORM
WAR SAVINGS SOCIETY
At the regular meeting Friday night
of the Plumbers' and Steamfittcrs' as
sociation, the organization was formed
Into a war savings society, to he
known as the "Plumbers' War Savings
society." Kvery member present prom
ised to buy either a thrift stamp per
day or a war savings stamp every
month.
DRAFT BOARD TO EXAMINE
SIX MEN NEXT TUESDAY
Six men are to be called before Dr.
Bogart's hoard for physical examina
tion at K a.m. Tuesday, Juno 11. These
men will be part of the number who
entrain for Cnmp Gordon on June S4.
They nre: . John Franklin Lasloy, Sam
uel Gibson, John F.vely Upton, Hud
Franklin Jones. William Sherman Phil
Hps, Charles Vandergrift.
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the minutest detail of finish is worked out
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minute of labor employed in the manufac
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We are now making a special showing of
the most popular of the Marmon models the
Club Roadster. One finished in Havana
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We want you to come in and see these two
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see their luxurious upholstering inspect
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We are also showing other models of this
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JN these exciting times when everything is car
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Sports are too strenuous walking is tire
somestreet car riding s not satisfactory in
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In the hottest weather an automobile ride is cooling and re
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After the evening meal take an automobile ride. You
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night's rest and feel better fitted to wrestle with the problems
that the new day brings forth.
We will be glad to demonstrate and prove our argument to
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Then, too.
Traveling by automobile if it is a good one is less expen
sive than traveling by rail. And beginning Monday passenger
rates will be advanced one-third!
As an example: A party of seven recently made the round
trip to Atlanta from Chattanooga in a seven-passenger car at a
total cost of $6.75.!
Another thing: Your Government needs all the passenger
equipment for the transportation of soldiers it discourages
all travel that is not absolutely necessary. Therefore, you are
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Buick cars are made in a wide range of
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